Newcastle look set to accumulate the companies of a high senior analyst Luke Dickson – however solely as soon as he’s accomplished a interval of gardening go away at Manchester United.
Coming courtesy of Craig Hope’s Newcastle Confidential column for The Mail, Luke Dickson – a boyhood Newcastle fan – knowledgeable his outdated employers that he supposed to work alongside Eddie Howe earlier in 2024, however was placed on gardening go away by Purple Devils chiefs, together with Sporting Director Dan Ashworth. Oh the irony!
Hope writes “Luke Dickson knowledgeable his Man United bosses that he needed to stop to take up a key publish inside Eddie Howe’s first-team set-up earlier this 12 months. However Outdated Trafford chiefs, with Ashworth as sporting director, instructed the 28-year-old he couldn’t begin his new position on Tyneside till November.”
This extended holdup “has been met with a sigh by some inside Newcastle, who see the transfer as a ***-for-tat response to Ashworth’s personal makes an attempt to depart St James’ Park in February.”
Now beginning in November, 28-year-old Dickson may very well be a welcome addition to Newcastle’s rising backroom workers, providing help to Eddie Howe and the membership’s first-team coaches.
Dickson, who was lead academy analyst at Man Utd for 5 years, has additionally labored at Leicester Metropolis and Hibernian with over eight years of expertise working inside soccer analytics. Manchester United look to nonetheless be within the technique of recruiting for Dickson’s alternative.